How to Use evocation in a Sentence

evocation

noun
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  • But most of the show shares Goya’s grim realism, with unflinching evocations of war, death, and pain.
    — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The first section of the text, the Ars Goetia, contains the descriptions of the evocations for each of the 72 demons.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 15 June 2018
  • The pain and confusion is all there; the place of peace, quiet and open air still in need of evocation.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • For all the fond evocation of time and place, kitsch and culture, this is a movie about dread — about the demons in the hills sharpening their knives.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
  • Richard Linklater's fond evocation of the last day of school in a small Texas town is one of the greatest high school movies ever.
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In fact, the evocation of that event comes at roughly a halfway point in the museum.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2021
  • And feel the tremendous power of Ferrante’s evocation of a bygone era in Italy?
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 18 Nov. 2018
  • There’s also a faint evocation of a prepubescent Bond movie, with the villain holed up in the sort of icy lair common to 007’s nemeses.
    — Pat Padua, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The Bell Jar may be the most famous evocation of depression in fiction.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 14 May 2020
  • Jones has a knack for gripping detail and vivid evocation.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • But back to cool torch bearer and now, finally, an evocation of Les Miz!
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • The second somewhat more subtle evocation of the Cold War is via horror tropes.
    — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 8 July 2019
  • The ending of his book is a beautiful evocation of peace—a riotous man’s homage to stillness.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Its strands are enveloped in a confit that extracts the purest evocation of tomato.
    — David Prior, CNT, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Joyce’s evocation of seafood helped counter last week’s visual of a plate full of calamari, displayed by a Rhode Islander during the Democrats’ roll call of the states.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Confronted with that duality, the works are a soft and somber evocation of the cruelty of the world.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • For instance, a tiny quote of Chopin in the 21st, a spectral wisp of a phrase on the piano, serves as an eerily eloquent evocation of a past not allowed to be buried.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
  • Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar may be the most famous evocation of depression in fiction.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020
  • After all, that's what vanilla is all about; not generic, one-note body sprays, but an evocation of sweetness and love.
    — Rachel Krause, Allure, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • But the book caught on through word of mouth, as readers were charmed by Mr. Mayle’s evocation of a rural world where the only thing that seemed to matter was the quality of life.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The delightful fragrance of Aqua Celestia is an evocation of the ocean breeze.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Precision can be the enemy of evocation, and evoking is what Smith seeks to do.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • As an evocation of a different era, the movie is quite wonderful.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 23 June 2017
  • And to dwell, finally, on the evocation of a time — 4 a.m. — when almost no one is awake, and the entire world seems to blow through your vanished defenses.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
  • More often, the evocation is more a matter of feeling and spirit, a kind of low-key, pensive rapture.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Autun exists in the book like an evocation, a dream place, eternal and yet always slipping away.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • Complete with a big brass band, and Zellweger offering up an evocation of the late icon, the song gleams with pure joy, thanks in no small part to Smith's inclusion.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The reader is invited to imagine, through the evocation of the brotherly bond, that Hunter might then succeed Beau.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Einsatz told Schiano about plans for an unauthorized torch march that night through the University of Virginia campus—a deliberate evocation of the Klan.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024

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